Wednesday, May 31, 2017

COMING: Bilderberg 2017 Meeting at Dulles

The 2017 Bilderberg Meeting will take place this year from June 1 to 4 in Chantilly, Virginia at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles.

Inside the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles

The Bilderberg meeting is an annual three-day forum for informal discussions between the establishment elite of Europe and North America. .

The first meeting took place in Hotel De Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, from May 29 to 31, 1954. Representatives from economic, social, political and cultural fields were invited to hold informal discussions affecting Western nations in the post-war period.

David Rockefeller wrote about the first meeting and a later scandal in Memoirs:

I was one of eleven Americans invited, and we joined fifty delegates from eleven Western European countries...I was surprised to have been invited...and even more taken aback when [Founder Joseph] Retinger asked me to prepare a background paper for the prospects of the world economy from the American perspective...

In 1976, Bilderberg faced a scandal that almost resulted in its collapse. Early that year in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it was allegedthat [Bilderberg founder] Prince Bernhard [of the Netherlands] had approached the Lockheed Corporation with an offer to use his official position to influence Dutch defense procurement policies in return for a significant financial consideration. As the year wore on, the evidence against Bernhard accumulated including indications that he had met with the intermediaries during Bilderberg events. The 1976 conference was canceled and it appeared at the time that Bilderberg was finished.

Needless to say, the crony event continues (probably with a toast to founder Prince Bernhard).